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J. VARGA.

DESK.

APPLICATION rum JUNE 2, 1913.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1914.

Application filed June 2, 1913. Serial No. 771,277.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN VARGA, a cit zen of the United States, residingat Gill: cage, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Desks, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in desks and its object is toprovide a desk having secret compartments that are so disposed withinthe body of the dos; as to be unobserved by an ordinary examination ofthe desk; such compartments are particularly useful as filing places forvaluable papers, documents, etc., which it is desired to keep in secretand to avoid possible theft of the same.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fullydescribed in the following specification, pointed out in the claim andillustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of saidspecification and in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improveddesk. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3is a side elevation. Fig. 4: is a detail of a portion of the desk withthe locking pin in open position. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing thelocking pin about to be moved into closed position. Fig. 6 is a sideview of Fig. 5 with the locking pin in closed position.

Like reference characters indicate correspending parts throughout theseveral views.

My desk comprises the legs 1, 2 between which the center drawer 3 islocated. In the leg 2 the regular drawers 1 are disposed. The legs 1, 2are disposed, respectively, upon the bases 5, 6 and to one side of theleg 1 adjacent the base 5 a door 7 is secured by a spring pressed hingeas at S to a shelf 12, said hinge being so positioned as to be entirelyhidden when the door 7 is in normal position or disposed against theleg 1. The appearance of the door 7 in its closed or normal position ismerely as a wall. of the leg 1 and it would not be recognized as havingany other function upon the closest in spection. To the top or free endof the door. 7 a catch 9 is secured adapted for releasable lockingengagement with one of the angular ends 9 of a latclrpin 10 extendingtrans versely through the top of the leg 1 and re taincd in operativeposition by sleeves 11, 11 secured to the desk. The leg 1 is hollow andopen adjacent the door 7 and within the log a plurality of shelves ortransverse partitions 12 are disposed which are normally hidd on fromview by the door 7 and upon which shelves valuables may be kept secretfrom parties having access to the desk who may be unmarpiainted with itssecret compartments.

13 is a central drawer disposed between the legs 1, 2 and it is providedwith front and rear release-pins 141-, 11 the former being disposed in aplane above the latter and as said drawer is drawn entirely out of itschamber the latter pin comes in contact with the latch-pin 10 throughthe medium of its angular ends 9*" and moves the same so that theangular termination 9 in engagement with the catch 9 is moved out ofcontact with that catch permitting the spring-hinge 8 to oscillate thedoor 7 away from the leg 1 opening said door and revealing the hiddencompartments 12. Re-hiserting the drawer 13, after the door 7 has beeninanually moved back into normal position, will again through front pin14- throw the latchpin 10 into locking engagement with the catch 9retaining said door in closed position.

The leg 2 is preferably formed with the usual drawers 141", 15, 16,etc., and to either side of said drawers said leg is provided withsecret compartments in every way similar to the compartments of theleg 1. The doors 7 of the leg 2 are built and operated similar to thedoor 7 of leg 1 and are hinged as at S and said doors secrete thecompartments l2. Tlransverso pins 10, 10 are socured, respectively, toone of the partitions 12 and the desk top and are operated respectively,by release-pins 1 1, let, carried by the drawers 15, 14;.

What is claimed is In a desk provided with a central drawer, a legprovided with compartments, a door hinged to said leg opening into saidcompartments, a catch carried by said door, a latch-pin transverselydisposed in said leg normally in engagement with said catch, rear andfront pins carried by said central drawer and disposed, respectively, inplanes one below the other; said rear pin being adapted for engagementwith said latch-p111 as the saw! drawer 1s withdrawn :trom the as my ownI have hereto affixed my signature 1n the presence of two snbscrlblngw1tnesses. desk and said front pin being adapted for JOHN VARGA. 5engagement therewith as said drawer is re- Witnesses:

inserted.

MILTON Rowrrorr, In testimony that I claim the foregoing AL B.BERNSTEIN.

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